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"If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?"
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"There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it-love-nobility-big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . ."

"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."

"The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations."

"Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals."

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."

"It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."
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"Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion."

"I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself."

"Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason."

"You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan."

"I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president."

"I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own."

"The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party."
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